Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-17

utter afterwards the Sermon OF the
Mount, and WAS to become the most in
dependent soul upon earth. When he de-
fed the world and stood before Pilate no
nurse held his hand. Thus figures lead
the human family in its early forms of
thought, but generally the real truth is
fa- away. Men die by millions before it
comes.
These figures are not performing their
strange work in religion alone. They are
as potent in politics ss they are in the
world of piety. The public has never
stood as near to politics as it has stood
to its religious faith. The universally of
death and sin has lead the whole human
race in all places to form some near per
sonal relations to some God and some
system
OF FINAL SALVATION.
The figures of piety have thus CON
cerned all who have lived, pagan and
Christian. The serpent, the fall, the
deluge, the baptism, the flames Of nell, the
glory OF paradise, have been the idols or
efigies OF each mind; but political
thought he's lived narrower life and has
not rolled over our planet like an ocean ;
but it mas rather run through it like g
limited river. 1t has been only as fgura-
tive as 1t WAS wide.
You cannot break up the unity of the
mind and make it fond OF emblems in re-
ligion averse to emblems in politics. The
mind cannot see darkly in some one direc-
tion and without dimness in some
other field. Earth is almost as
obscure as immortality; man as a
man is not much less a mystery than
man as an angel. Politics is nearly as
incomprehensible as the Papal or Cal
vanistic theology. Henry Georgeism
does not differ much in want of lucidity
from the enigmas Of the common sanctu-
ary. Muddy waters seem deeper than
clear waters. Thus profound obscurity
often passes for wisdom. Two very
great orstions were delivered few DAYS
ago in the interest of the Anti-Poverty
Society. One Grafton was by the Rev.
Hugh o. PenteCOst, the other by
THE PEOPLES PRIEST.
McGlynn. These addresses were pre-
pared for the nation, and were uttered in
the academy in New York. Both men
are orators, and the scene was equal in
wild excitement to any Of those hours in
which Cicero, or Burke, or Fox held en-
audience by the spell of eloquence. Men
snd women waved haudk rchiefs and
clapped hands until the orators were al
most siIenced by the applause of the
people, And what was the theme ofthese
orators. The one theme was the over
throw of poverty by the freedom Of land
from ownership. The most thrilling pas
sages Of DR.. Pentecost were these:
another one of these detectives in his
-
patient, painStaking Germans who gets at
the root of things, who tells US that il
London, with a population OF 100000,
half the population live III single rooms.
Six hundred thousand families in London,
more families than there are IN ali New
York together, live il one room to each
family. The working people of London
live, on the average TO each family, In one
an One-tiith Of q room. In many cases,
families Of six, WITH TWO bOaTdeTs who
are poorer than they are, live together in
one room nine feet square, One quarter
Of the wages of these working people is
paid down for rent Kisses aud this in &
land that permits twelve men TO own one
seventh Of the whole kingdom, that per-
mits one man to own 10000 acres him
self. You ask us to believe that al that
squalOr and poverty comes from the
drunkenness and Incidence of those PEG.
pie! Cries of "no, no, never" from su
parts Of the audience.
OF FATHER M'GLYNN's ADDRESS
only 8 specimen can be given:
'And so, with all reverence to his rev
erence laughter snd applause the min
lister or priest or whoever else he may be
laughter that thinks to shut the mouths,
TO benighJ the minds, and to stine the
hearts of the preachers OF this crusade by
pTating shout the sacred rights of proper
~, to such an one we are prepared to say,
we do say, we say it to all the world
none more than we, few as much as we,
&re concerned for the sacredness of
property. [Great applause. A large
part, we may say the whole, Of the preach
ing of this crusade is to thunder forth,
with thunders that shall sll but rival
those of Mount Sinai, to all the world, to
the proud, the naughty, to the aristo-
Gratis, the crowns, and the kings, to the
robbers, the usurpers, the sacriligious
monsters that would change the law OF
God, Thou, you, shalt lot steal' Tu-
multuous shouts and cheers. And,
translating il into the plsinest and home
lest of Saxon English, so that every
child can understand, the object of this
whole crusade is 10 stop the stealing.
Applause. All can understand thai"
Thus for two or three hours upon two
evenings ran these two streams of eIo-
quence, but neither of these chosen ora
tors made any approach toward explain
ing the
FREE LANDISM OF THEIR CnIEFTAIN,
Henry George; nor did either intimate in
any manner how the poor could ali be
made comfortable by any new plan. Many
OF the greatest milliCnaires of the world
do not own land; they own stocks and
bonds. The tremendous corporations of
England and America are not land own
ers. The LAID theory of Henry George
would drive oil capital into oil compa-
hies, East India companies, .nanufactur-
!nE companies, boards OF trade, iron
companies, and would leave the land for
the tillsge of those who bad not esp
it2l enough to do anything else than to
raise vegetables and grains. II would
be matter OF great Joy TO many of our
milliOnsireS if al taxes should be eyacted
from land investments.
THESE orators have found that one msn
in England owns more than million
acres Of land. Over this fact orator
and audience lament, but the logical de-
duction should have been: Shall not
these anti-poverty men seek those mil
lions OF acres which nobody owns ? For
if IoDd no Cnah morrow,